From: Kay jackson
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 4:51 PM
To: City Council <[email protected]>
Subject: A and M Barbecue
What’s with Sebastopol and approving and encouraging business? People are fighting over a local business and Sebastopol is supposed to support local business. There is outcry over a Grocery Outlet because people are complaining it doesn’t fit the local zoning for Sebastopol keeping chain businesses out. When there are so many chain grocery stores already in Sebastopol.
Now people are complaining about a local business and people who are truly local. I have enjoyed more than one meal at this barbecue. This is the first I have heard of complaints.
Sebastopol is apparently not friendly to local business. I haven’t read the complaints but why don’t you help and encourage businesses.
There are many empty buildings in Sebastopol. I am starting to hate the politics in Sebastopol which are so “all over the place”. You approve a Little Ceasar’s and a huge hotel in the middle of town that will cause traffic and will really wreck the small town charm but you aren’t supporting a business that took over and existing space.
You raised all the garbage rates so the so called small business that you say you want have an additional burden of garbage costs. The infrastructure is failing in Sebastopol yet you keep adding housing development?
I don’t vote in Sebastopol but your governing is erratic and I personally really hate how Sebastopol is run
Kay Jackson
Sebastopol, CA 95482
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